Alright.
It seems that you have a point and I have to apologize for being too stubborn to see it. Was late at night yesterday..
I'm not 100% sure yet how the rewards are really calculated - since there is no official statement about that - but it really bugs me when I do a mistake.
I've done 2 things now:
1.) Increased the basic factor to 2.75
2.) And made curation dynamic again. Meaning if the voter would get complete curation - then the factor is increased to 3.0.
Meaning:
You send 2 SBD - receive 6$ Upvote in the case of 25% curation.
I've also made an official statement about this!
https://steemit.com/steem/@smartsteem/quick-update-higher-upvote-ratio
Thank you for pointing this out!!
While you mentioned above that factor has been updated to 2.75 to 3.0. But I observed that the basic factor is 2.25 right now. As per the logic mentioned above, that won't be profitable (may also go in loss for the vote buyer) depending on the Steem and SBD value.
Please correct me if I am wrong.Hi @therealwolf, @tomswan calculation is correct.
PS: Hats-off to both of you for an amazing mathematical discussion above. Cheers!